Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-05-15

% lie asked me To 60 security io'
him till he could get IL, and the judge
allowed him TO 60 at that. 1t II
only fair TO say that within ten min
utes after he lett the courtroom he WA
back with the money. i did no. see him
again until he drove up in all that mag
nificent style ut the road-honse, where
the Judge and were lounging away 9
Sunday afternoon. Since that time
have seen him everywhere. He Is
living 1T the rate of about S3O,O00
year. The question is, How does he
do It II is q mystery compared with
which the mysteries Of Middle Africa
are transparent. For an hour on sun
day the Judge and | watched the
coming and gong Of men, whose sud
den access Of fortune is almost as re-
markable as that Of the well-cIai little
failcr's 10y. Cn6 hotel clerk who
was recently dismissed from his
position for series OF light peculations
drove mp tandem in stunning cart
with a lurlcsquc actress by his side and
climbed alo,t 10 a private dl0ing'room
md q so dinner. Another p1nGy-
faced little man arrived in similar
fplcndor and nobbed casually to few
acQuaiuianccs. who recalled the time
Wien lie was a bill-postcr's assistant
without an effort. They came indoors
and the question that followed every
enc Of them was, How does he man
age to do 1t ?"
IiTrRALY PIRAClRs.
The case Of Oscanyan Efendi. for
mcIly Turkish Consul at This port, vino
is accused Of selling as his own a story
Written by Fitz-James o. Brlen and pub
lishcd 10 HdVCy's NogcejHc in 1856,
and who WAS arrested as "a literary thief
at the instance OF 4. Irving Bachelor,
the publisher, recalls n hundred in
stances Of unscTupulous deception on
the part Of persons who have posed as
writers, hut who have shown more
readiness as automatic copyists than as
authors, more activity wit u their fingers
than Their brains. Such frauds
have been common for centuries,
One Of the most learned men Of Ger
many many years ago wrote book
which he gave e. tnr world ~ q frag-
ment Of Seneca, and tine imposture was
not discovered til long time after
ward Whether Chatterton, 1.-The
matchless boy who persisted in his
pride" actually composed the poems
which re published MS Rowleys, or
whether ice really found them in an old
chest, are Gueft'ons which may never
10 solved. but the general verdict OF
literary critics was that it was ease OF
ingenious impostcrc. II so it was
cicarly o fcly, ior the poems would
Lave given HIM great repat'tion If
thcy had been published rs his own.
! uiing the Revolution alleged letters
of Washington were !or2edfor tn pnr-
rose Of affecting political opinions IN
England. and about thir;y-ive Gears
500 so-CGiled new work Of Sir
Walter SCOTS appeared which proved
70 be 81 ialgostLre. But newspapers
end magazines have always been pecu-
barry oXpos,d to this form Of impos-
iurc, partly oV ,ug To the unavoidable
haste with whitA they are prepared
Ii7.ch once Geclcsad that for the par
pore Of excluding old Jokes from its
columns il WAS under the painful ne
ctssity Of keeping u memory boy.
like all BOYS. be Gems occasionally -
90 TO Sleep at his post. Jokes which
must have seemed p1inGally antique
70 TGwcscs II, long before he became
mummy in the sgcet-s,ented cero-
merts of IN Egyptian tomb occasion
ally shine with "a faint Giimmer from
ast ages in that weekly exhibition OF
humorous LriC-0-br0c, and editors on
this side Of the water al~ounwittinglyas-
astnot mfreGucutly at The cXhumingof
cad and forgotten stories, the chief
lave-GiepcT. Of coWse, representing
himself rs tho author. DisrGeh, ii is
well known, stole large portion OF one
Of his finest olatiOns from Gnizot, the
Trench statesman and historian. The
Rev. Or. Goodwin, a regent Of the Uni
vCrsity Of this State about twenty years
ago, made q speech on the influence OF
modern Liberty, half OF which VAS taken
rom q pamphlet written by the inhdel
Tom Paine. This was whipping his
satamc majesty around a stump atayery
high rate Of speed. The clergyman
tesling from the intidel, whonhe would
probably feel bound to denodnce in the
lulpit Paine, whatever may be said Of
lis opinions, WIS never considered a
thief or a hypocrite. One OF the most
unblushing OF literary impostures, how
ever, was the transfer OF q story from
Groh0m'S N0Jd-jne to Il periodical
called the International N1gn-inc,
published here during the civil war ard
edited by Robert J. Walker, formerly
Secretary Of the Treasury. In 1888
Grah0m'S No90sinc published an in
teresting story entitled " Dora's Cold. "
ii was piratod, word for word in the
}htt',0NoLGi Ncg0.mc seven years
later. What made this impOsture pc
culiarly lrazon was the TACT that cru
h01n'S NoQceiac Was then one OF the
most Widely-circulated periodicals IN
This country, sud that the H',W7tioH-
81 also had large circulation among
thc same class OF readers.
A CLNER DETECTION.
4 gentleman well known in New
York vas one day in the Office of Il
newspaper when a young man entered
and offered 4 story for publication. It
related to factory lite IN the East, and
Was siugularly well written. The editor
INQUIRED. Who WTOtc this
The Young man answered, - friend
II nine"
lis he an old man ?'
No; twenty-five or tweuty-six.'
"Ihe reason ! osked, said the edi-
tor, "is that he has au sllusion to a
color called Nayarino blue. This could
lot have been written long after the
battle Of that name, which WAS fought
IL 1876 or 1927, when the co,er became
familiar to the public"
# was u keen criticism which plqued
he curiosity Of the gentleman to whom
! have referred lie took the manu-
script read II few pages, and found that
It was an unblushing theft of a story
from the Lowell O6cring. a periodical
published and conducted by tho factory
hands there in 1916. The young man,
who was probably himself the literary
thief, promptly retired, crestfallen.
Most of the newspapers and magazines
Of long standing have been yictimized.
Joseph Howsrd's bogus draft proclama-
,;oO ,vl;o1 oauea1 tba e,tcpapcion for